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Stuff I Dislike: Confusing ‘queue’ with ‘cue’ or ‘que’

que

  1. Spanish word for interrogation meaning what
  2. Spanish and French relative pronoun

queue

  1. What British people call a bunch of people standing one after another as they await something ( like entry to a bus, or a movie house )
  2. What your netflix movies are stored in prior to delivery

While the utterance “I was standing in a que” inspires some level of existential examination for the bi-lingual, please, an additional ‘ue’ makes all the difference.

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3 Responses to “Stuff I Dislike: Confusing ‘queue’ with ‘cue’ or ‘que’”

  1. Steanso Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    Boy, there’s a lot of room for a topic with that headline to go terribly wrong. Good luck with it.

  2. Steven G. Harms Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Heh, you may have a point. Subtly amending.

  3. mice Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    Don’t forget that we also use word queue to mean that little pony tail that all the Manchurians wear in all the Gung-Fu movies.

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